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[Daniel Petersen]

Well, Lee, I'm one of the newer 'very intelligent, insightful, well-read
contributors' who is in danger of being chased away even by your 'free
thought' postings.  But never fear, I won't really run.

Semi-facetiously,

DOJP

On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 8:56 PM, Lee Berman <severiansola at hotmail.com>wrote:

>
>
> >Daniel Petersen: I actually am well known among family and friends as
> being the
> >aggro one at times.
>
> Heh, funny. I am always described as the fair and unflappable peacemaker.
>
>
> >The second thing is that I feel fairly uncomfortable with
> >the idea of people having 'goals' for this list.  What in the world?
> >The list has a simple and stated purpose:  to  discuss Wolfe's works.
>  Let's
> >leave it at that and be busy with it - not trying to manipulate others
> and the
> >'community' toward further ends we've concocted. That's just weird.  Not
> in the
> >good 'weird fiction' way.  It's... creepy.
>
> Oh it IS weird and creepy. But sometimes ya gotta do what ya gotta do.
> "Let's
> just talk about Wolfe" sounds so simple and easy. But, obviously it isn't
> and
> it hasn't been from the beginning, some 15 years ago.
>
> Perhaps I should elaborate that my goals are not really for the group as a
> whole
> but more selfish and self-serving. There were a number of very intelligent,
> insightful, well-read contributors here who seemed chased away by a
> certain cadre
> of enforcers. I really wanted to be able to interact with them. Some are
> gone
> forever I guess, but I've really really appreciated what I've learned from
> those
> guys who came back.
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